Workplace violence against healthcare workers in the emergency department — a 10-year retrospective single-center cohort study

Abstract Background Medical staff are regularly confronted with workplace violence (WPV), which poses a threat to the safety of both staff and patients. Structured de-escalation training (DET) for Emergency Department (ED) staff has been shown to positively affect the reporting of WPV incidents and...

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Main Authors: Leo Benning, Gisbert W. Teepe, Jan Kleinekort, Jorun Thoma, Michael Clemens Röttger, Andrea Prunotto, Dominik Gottlieb, Stefan Klöppel, Hans-Jörg Busch, Felix P. Hans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-09-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-024-01250-w